Fifty-five years after a WWII pilot was shot down and died near Iwo Jima, a Lafayette boy recalled details of the event and ...

Franz Stigler, a German fighter pilot, spared American bomber pilot Charles Brown during World War II, illustrating how ...

James Kelly “Jim” Kunkle, a highly decorated World War II fighter pilot and lifelong champion of aviation, passed away at ...

The burial for Morton Sher took place on Dec. 14 in South Carolina on what would have been his 105th birthday.

In the smoke-filled skies of World War II, two German pilots changed how battles were fought above the clouds. They were not merely aces; they were innovators who transformed air tactics through ...

DNA testing helped identify the body of Lt. Morton Sher, a member of the Flying Tigers, killed in action in 1943 during a ...

During World War II, the sky was its own battlefield, and the fighter pilots who owned it were a different breed. They were young, fearless, and sharp enough to dance with death at 20,000 feet.

Donald McPherson, a World War II Navy pilot from Nebraska, died Aug. 14 at age 103. He was recognized as America’s last surviving WWII "ace," credited with five aerial victories. Family say he wanted ...

During World War II, the American F4U Corsair was one of the fastest fighter planes ever built—and one of the most dangerous to fly. This story follows U.S. Navy and Marine Corps pilots, along with ...

Reginald Harrison didn’t have a nickname when he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1943. But after crashing his plane a second time trying to liftoff for a mission in 1944, fellow pilots started ...

The only known Navy ace to shoot down German and Japanese planes during World War II has died. According to his daughter, Dean "Diz" Laird died Aug. 10 at the age of 101. The California native was ...